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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Epigenetic Modulation and Bone Metastasis: Evolving Therapeutic Strategies.

Mahmoud Zhra, Jasmine Hanafy Holail, Khalid S Mohammad

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mahmoud ZhraDepartment of Anatomy and Genetics, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5067-4984
Jasmine Hanafy HolailDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7743-6740
Khalid S MohammadDepartment of Anatomy and Genetics, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0006-9708-2111

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone metastasis remains a significant cause of morbidity and diminished quality of life in patients with advanced breast, prostate, and lung cancers. Emerging research highlights the pivotal role of reversible epigenetic alterations, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling complex dysregulation, and non-coding RNA networks, in orchestrating each phase of skeletal colonization. Site-specific promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes such as

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bone metastasisbone-targeting agentsDNA methylationepigenetic therapyhistone modificationnon-coding RNAstumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40872531
PMCPMC12389651

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